If school is out on Labor Day, ensure your attendance days will be correct when you return by skipping Labor Day on the Configuration scheduling calendar. When you add a date on the Scheduling Calendar tab of the Academic Year, you are prompted to add the dates to the Session Scheduling Calendar. When...

We have some classess that only display 4 or 5 names at a time on the attendance screen on FA WEb. Does anyone else have this problem? Anyone know how to change it so the teacher can view all the students at once?

Do you have an employee taking a few months off or a college student filling in while an employee goes on maternity leave? How do you plan to handle their attendance accruals while they are gone? Your first thought may be to edit their existing attendance plan and change the accrual amount to zero. This...

Our medical insurance carrier has provided us with a web site, HR Connection, to provide our employees with information on all of their benefits and other communication such as insurance forms, posting up company events, etc. The HR Connection manual states that we can link with our payroll system and...

A common question we've been getting lately is how to create an attendance plan, so I thought it would be a good topic to cover. I guess there's no need to beat around the bush so let's get started. In Configuration, Attendance Plans, click New Attendance Plan. Enter an ID, description, and...

Have you returned from a much deserved break to find out of order cycle days in Attendance? If you answered yes, then it's likely the dates were not marked as skipped on the scheduling calendar in Configuration. If you have not entered attendance after the holiday dates, you can reset the cycle days...

Has anyone gotten a report to total not only absences, but days present?

This feature is great for those of you that have several attendance codes on employee records not in use that appear when printing checks or EFT notices. I'll give you one guess on this one...give up? Beginning with the release of The Financial Edge version 7.77, you will have the option to only...

Welcome to the final installment of the Attendance Arithmetic series. Let's talk about start of cycle attendance. Start of cycle attendance accrues all attendance on the effective date of the attendance plan. For example, David Jones started January 1, 2007 and accrues 40 vacation hours per cycle...